Severe weather is set to last to the end of the week as 40million people in the Central States and a further 20million on the East Coast take another battering from a massive storm.

Although the snow may now have cleared out in the region, warmer air brings a new host of problems including high winds, flash flooding, hail and even a few tornadoes.

A flash storm dropped several inches of snow on the East Coast on Tuesday before turning to rain. It came days after storms paralyzed the Southeast and Northeast with heavy snow, ice and widespread power outages.

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People go sledding in Central Park - the city was hit with its 22nd day of snowfall, making for a total of 48 inches for the year

More to come: The Central States and East Coast looks set to be hit by flash flooding, hail and even some tornadoes later in the week

Icicles hang off the Nittany Lion Inn on the Penn State University campus as a bicyclist rides along Park Avenue today in Pennsylvania

Workers take a lunch break from shoveling snow near the Statehouse on Tuesday in Trenton, New Jersey

Three to six inches of snow fell on Tuesday after a storm moved in overnight from the Great Lakes and through the Mid-Atlantic.

'We're looking at a relatively short duration event,' said the weather service's John Cristantello.

Temperatures above freezing on Tuesday should move up to the 40s to mid-50s for the remainder of the week, he said.

In New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, snow will fall from daybreak until about early afternoon before heading to the Gulf of Maine.

People ice skate in Central Park on Tuesday as the city experienced its second highest snowfall on record

A lone snowman sits in Central Park on February 18 as the city struggled through a morning commute in the snowstorm

People walk through Central Park on yet another snow day. The city has had a total of 48 inches for the year

More adverse weather conditions would move up the East Coast into the late week

A water main burst in downtown Detroit today, flooding several streets that were already coated with ice

A snow-covered car sits along a road Tuesday in Brooklyn as record snow falls have left several feet of snow piled up on sidewalks

Tuesday's storm made this month New
York City's snowiest ever on record. More than 28 inches of snow has
been recorded in Central Park this month - putting it in second place to
February 2010. Today's snowfall was the city's 22nd this winter.

Records were also being set in Philadelphia, with the 2013-14 winter being the third snowiest ever.

New
Jersey, which has suffered delays of the rock salt needed to de-ice its
roads, is instead laying a briny pickle juice-like mixture as an
alternative.

The state's
salt is currently sitting at a port in Maine because a federal waiver is
holding up the shipment. It will then take two days to move the salt
from Maine to Newark.

The icy conditions have also left drivers complaining about a multitude of potholes, including in Maryland.

Road crews don't normally go out to fix streets until March but this year are already in full swing due to treachous conditions.

Coastal
areas in Maine and Massachusetts saw blizzard-like conditions with more
than a foot of snow during a storm on Saturday, and thousands on Cape
Cod were left without power.

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But
forecasters said there could be 4 to 6 inches in the Poconos Mountains
and 2 to 6 inches of snow in parts of western and central Pennsylvania.

On Monday, several inches of snow fell across the Great Lakes, causing Chicago's two airports to cancel more than 1,000 flights.

Garbage bags lie along Broadway Tuesday in New York as the city was hit with more snow

In Michigan, crashes closed portions of Interstate 96 in Grand Rapids and the Muskegon area saw whiteout conditions.

Last Wednesday, the snow, sleet and ice that bombarded the Southeast brought its ferocity into the East Coast a day later.

About
1.2 million utility customers lost power as the storm moved from the
South through the Northeast. Schools, businesses and government offices
closed.

The recent storms have been blamed for the deaths of at least 25 people.

A man rides a bicycle in Boston as snow from the latest storm to hit the area begins to fall

Water stands after a water main break on Woodward Avenue near Campus Martius in Detroit on Tuesday

The storm is slated to hit New York City just after 5 a.m. Monday and continue throughout the day until about 6 p.m. Experts predict anywhere from two to six inches to fall in the Big Apple and other East Coast cities.

The NYC Sanitation Department has issued a snow alert ahead of the latest batch of wintry weather due to arrive just in time for the Tuesday morning commute.

The alert will go into effect at 3 a.m. and plows and salt spreaders are being prepped.

Despite the tremendous amount of snow this winter, the sanitation department says they have sufficient salt supplies to deal with Tuesday's storm.

More than 1,700 flights within, into or
out of the United States had been canceled by 1 p.m. EST, according to
the website FlightAware.

Roads could also become dangerous during
the height of the snowfall, so officials were warning drivers to avoid
unnecessary travel.

Thunder snow has been reported in Illinois, where a winter storm warning went into effect at 9 a.m. CST and will last until 9 p.m.

If the low temperatures and persistent snowfall continue, this winter is on track to be the third coldest on record, after 1979 and 1899.

People cross a slushy Park Avenue Tuesday in New York City. The city has reportedly received a total of about four feet of snow so far in 2014